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Spring (building)
Spring is a 43- story, tall condominium in Austin, Texas. Upon its completion in 2009 it became the 3rd tallest building in Austin and the tallest building in the West End. The tower currently stands as the 14th tallest in the city. It was designed by Vancouver–based architect Foad Rafii. The architect of record was Morris Architects and Pentagram was the graphic designer of the project. Spring was the first point tower in Austin, a term referring to a slender tower above a large, mid-rise base. Spring is known for its prominence in the West End skyline, being the furthest west skyscraper in Austin. The tower was also the first building in Austin to feature an in-slab HVAC exhaust system, in which the exhaust air from the building is carried through horizontal ductwork cast into the floor plates and the building's perimeter, rather than being exhausted vertically to the roof. The tower's main structure is made of cast in place concrete. Austin Energy has given Spring a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Austin, Texas
Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the Metropolitan statistical area, 26th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the List of United States cities by population, 13th-most populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, fifth-most populous city in the state after Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 in Texas, I-35 corridor. This combined metropolitan region of San Antonio–Austin met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Emporis
Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022. Emporis was acquired by CoStar Group in October 2020. On 12 September 2022, the managing director of CoStar Europe posted a letter on Emporis.com, informing its community members that the Emporis database and community platform would be shut down effective 13 September 2022. Emporis offered a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com. Emporis was frequently cited by various media sources as an authority on building data.- - - Emporis originally focused exclusively on Tower block, high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, which it defined as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively. Emporis used the point where the building touches the ground to determine height. The database had expanded to include l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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SkyscraperPage
SkyscraperPage is a website for skyscraper hobbyists and enthusiasts that tracks existing and proposed skyscrapers around the world. The site is owned by Skyscraper Source Media, a supplier of skyscraper diagrams for the publication, marketing, and display industries, and is a publisher of illustrated skyscraper diagram poster products. They are based in Victoria, British Columbia. The site has over 80,000 drawings of skyscrapers, other major macro-engineering projects, and tall structures around the world. The scale of the drawings are one pixel per meter. The images are created using pixel art. Using these diagrams, skyscrapers and other tall structures can be compared. General information is also given about each structure if available, such as the location, the year built, the height and the number of floors. The site also hosts a discussion forum for skyscraper enthusiasts. See also * SkyscraperCity * Emporis * List of Internet forums * List of tallest buildings in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Storey
A storey (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are ''storeys'' (UK, CAN) and ''stories'' (US). The terms ''floor'', ''level'', or ''deck'' are used in similar ways as storey (e.g., "the 16th ''floor''"). However, when referring to an entire building, it is more usual to use storey or story (e.g., "a 16-''storey'' building"). The floor at ground or street level is called the ''ground floor'' (i.e. it needs no number); the floor below ground is called ''basement'', and the floor above ground is called "first" in many regions. However, in some regions, like the US, ''ground floor'' is synonymous with ''first floor'', leading to differing numberings of floors, depending on region – even between different national varieties of English. The words ''storey'' and ''floor'' normally exclud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Condominium
A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners. These individual units are surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned and managed by the owners of the units. The term can be applied to the building or complex itself, and is sometimes applied to individual units. The term "condominium" is mostly used in the US and Canada, but similar arrangements are used in #By country, many other countries under different names. Residential condominiums are frequently constructed as apartment buildings, referred as well as Horizontal Property. There are also rowhouse style condominiums, in which the units open directly to the outside and are not stacked. Alternatively, detached condominiums look like single-family detached home, single-family homes, but the yards (gardens), building exterio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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List Of Tallest Buildings In Austin, Texas
File:Downtown Austin, Texas from the Colorado River, October 2022.jpg, upright=2.5, alt=Wide photograph showing the Austin skyline, The Austin skyline viewed from across the Colorado River (Texas), Colorado River in October 2022 (Use cursor to identify buildings) poly 444 725 666 755 1044 888 1036 1414 422 1443 Gables Park Tower poly 688 748 1051 896 1029 1332 1244 1340 1251 600 681 526 The Bowie poly 163 1177 178 304 533 363 526 718 452 718 429 1207 Spring (building), Spring poly 1244 873 1592 873 1569 1362 1229 1340 The Monarch poly 1732 1325 1717 799 1895 799 1895 1303 Fifth and West Residences poly 3087 1214 3509 1229 3716 1251 3701 1340 3072 1355 Austin Public Library#Central Library, Austin Central Library poly 2206 792 2539 740 2672 762 2672 1295 2221 1295 Seaholm Residences poly 2280 777 2280 252 2398 215 2569 259 2569 733 2450 725 The Independent (Austin, Texas), The Independent poly 2613 755 2606 614 2776 622 2769 814 2798 807 2798 1295 2680 1295 2672 762 Sixth & Guadal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Foad Rafii
Foad Rafii () M.Arch. Architect AAA, AIBC. FRAIC (born March 8, 1947) is a Canadian architect. In 2001, ''The Vancouver Sun'' in a headline article, named Foad Rafii as one of the 10 architects who shaped the Vancouver of today. In early 2014 Foad Rafii was elected to Fellowship in the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Education Foad is a graduate of Alborz High School (Old American College) in Tehran, who received his master's degree in architecture with Distinction from the University of Tehran, School of Architecture in 1972. In 1976, he attended the University of Oslo, and completed a course in "Urban and Regional Planning and Environment Protection". In 1987, he completed work on "Urban Waterfront Development" at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Career In 1973 together with some colleague friends he started the consulting firm ORBIS Institute for Environmental Design, Foad being the Managing Director. While practicing in Tehran, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC ) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. HVAC system design is a subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. "Refrigeration" is sometimes added to the field's abbreviation as HVAC&R or HVACR, or "ventilation" is dropped, as in HACR (as in the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers). HVAC is an important part of residential structures such as single family homes, apartment buildings, hotels, and senior living facilities; medium to large industrial and office buildings such as skyscrapers and hospitals; vehicles such as cars, trains, airplanes, ships and submarines; and in marine environments, where safe and healthy building conditions are regulated with respect to temperature and humidity, using fres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cast In Place Concrete
Cast-in-place concrete or Cast-in-situ concrete is a technology of construction of buildings where walls and slabs of the buildings are cast at the site in formwork. This differs from precast concrete technology where slabs are cast elsewhere and then brought to the construction site and assembled. It uses concrete slabs for walls instead of bricks or wooden panels, and formwork is used for both walls and roof. Advantages of this technology are strength of the building, insulation, and versatility for different types of buildings. A disadvantage is the high amount of labor required to install and remove formwork. See also * Precast concrete * Formwork Formwork is Molding (process), molds into which concrete or similar materials are either precast concrete, precast or cast-in-place concrete, cast-in-place. In the context of concrete construction, the falsework supports the shuttering mold ... References Building engineering {{civil-engineering-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Austin Energy
Austin Energy is a publicly owned utility providing electrical power to the city of Austin, Texas and surrounding areas. Established in 1895, the utility is a department of the City of Austin and returns its profits to the city's general fund to finance other city services. Austin Energy is the United States' 7th largest public utility, serving more than 500,000 customers and more than one million residents (as of 2019) within a service area of approximately , including Austin, Travis County and a small portion of Williamson County. Energy generation Austin Energy’s total generation capacity is more than 3,000 megawatts (MW), provided by a mixture of wind power, solar power, biomass, natural gas, nuclear power, and coal. All of Austin Energy's generation is sold into the ERCOT wholesale market; all of the retail load is served by purchasing power from ERCOT. Generation assets Austin Energy owns and operates two natural gas-fired power plants in the Austin area: the Decker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Green (certification)
Green rating or certification is used to indicate the level of environmental friendliness for real estate properties. In the US, it is a real estate designation for Realtors approved by the (American) National Association of Realtors (NAR). The program was developed in 2008 by the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council of NAR, with administration transferred to the Green Resource Council. The course curriculum includes sustainable building practices, marketing, and rating systems (e.g., LEED, IFGICT and Energy Star). As a result, there is some course content overlap with the EcoBroker and NAGAB's Accredited Green Agent and Broker designations. In India, the Energy Resources Institute (TERI) developed the GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment). GRIHA is promoted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) as a national rating system. It originally developed from LEED and has additional requirements. There is also the Indian green building council (IGBC) rati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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List Of Tallest Buildings In Austin
File:Downtown Austin, Texas from the Colorado River, October 2022.jpg, upright=2.5, alt=Wide photograph showing the Austin skyline, The Austin skyline viewed from across the Colorado River (Texas), Colorado River in October 2022 (Use cursor to identify buildings) poly 444 725 666 755 1044 888 1036 1414 422 1443 Gables Park Tower poly 688 748 1051 896 1029 1332 1244 1340 1251 600 681 526 The Bowie poly 163 1177 178 304 533 363 526 718 452 718 429 1207 Spring (building), Spring poly 1244 873 1592 873 1569 1362 1229 1340 The Monarch poly 1732 1325 1717 799 1895 799 1895 1303 Fifth and West Residences poly 3087 1214 3509 1229 3716 1251 3701 1340 3072 1355 Austin Public Library#Central Library, Austin Central Library poly 2206 792 2539 740 2672 762 2672 1295 2221 1295 Seaholm Residences poly 2280 777 2280 252 2398 215 2569 259 2569 733 2450 725 The Independent (Austin, Texas), The Independent poly 2613 755 2606 614 2776 622 2769 814 2798 807 2798 1295 2680 1295 2672 762 Sixth & Guadal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |